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Thanks for sharing! My approach to this is from a philosophy background, less coding, but I'll see if I can puzzle my way through some of the technical language I don't use regularly. I just took a "Phil of mind and artificial intelligence" course waaaayyyy back in 2020 that first turned me onto these topics, and that may as well be ancient history as far as "AI" is concerned. I developed a strong conviction even then that LLMs were structurally incapable of "General Intelligence," whatever that is, and began trying to think about what was missing from the process or approach that yielded actual intelligence. I more or less came to the conclusion that the tech field was largely oversimplifying the problem (when has that ever happened before) and substituting a solvable problem, "How do we train better Machine Learning programs?" for a much harder problem, "How do we construct an intelligence?"

However, since then I've specialized in other areas of legal and political philosophy and have less regular interaction with the current discussion other than to hate on it and be a gadfly whenever less skeptical members of my community begin to become seduced by the allure of yet another tech con.